Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom. As the head of state,King Charles III - on the advice of the Prime Minister of Jamaica - appoints a governor-general as her representative in Jamaica. The governor-general has a largely ceremonial role. Jamaica constitutes an independent Commonwealth realm.
Percival Noel James Patterson,popularly known as P.J. Patterson,is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years,making him the longest-serving Prime Minister in Jamaica’s history. He was the leader of the People's National Party from 1992 to 2006.
Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller is a Jamaican politician. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. She was the leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and the Leader of the Opposition twice,from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017.
Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn is a Jamaican athlete and politician. As an athlete,she was a sprinter specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres. Cuthbert-Flynn has competed at four Olympic Games,winning two silver medals at the 1992 games held in Barcelona.
Andrew Michael Holness,is a Jamaican politician who has been the Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016,following the 2016 Jamaican general election. Holness previously served as prime minister from October 2011 to 5 January 2012. He succeeded Bruce Golding as prime minister,and decided to go to the polls in the 29 December 2011 general election in an attempt to get his own mandate from the Jamaican electorate. He failed in that bid,however,losing to the People's National Party led by Portia Simpson-Miller,with the PNP gaining 42 seats to the Jamaica Labour Party's 21. Following that defeat,Holness served as Leader of the Opposition from January 2012 to March 2016,when he once again assumed the position of prime minister. In 2020,The Labour Party won a landslide in another general election,and on 7 September Holness was sworn in for another term as prime minister.
Saint Andrew South Western is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament. It elects one Member of Parliament MP by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was created in 1959. It is currently represented by the Dr Angela Brown-Burke of the PNP.
Saint Andrew South Eastern is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament,It elects one Member of Parliament MP by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was created in 1967.
Saint Andrew South is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament. It elects one Member of Parliament MP by the first past the post system of election. It has been represented by Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding since 2017.
General elections were held in Jamaica on 25 February 2016. The elections were largely a contest between the governing People's National Party (PNP) and the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). The result was a narrow victory for the JLP,which won 32 of the 63 seats. One political commentator described the poll as "the closest election Jamaica has ever had".
Shahine Elizabeth Robinson was a Jamaican politician,who served as the Minister of Labour and Social Security. She was a member of the Parliament of Jamaica for Saint Ann North Eastern. She served briefly as the Transport and Works Minister from late November 2011 to January 2012.
Peter PhillipsMP is a Jamaican politician who is currently the MP for Saint Andrew East Central.
Peter Murcott Bunting,MP was the fifth National Security Minister of Jamaica and the Former Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Central Manchester. Bunting was the General Secretary of the People's National Party,a position which he has held from January 2008 to January 2014. In the 2020 People's National Party leadership election,Bunting was the lead contender in the polls before the PNP's stunning defeat in the 2020 Jamaican general election,in which he lost his Manchester Central seat in Jamaica's parliament.
The British Democratic Party (BDP),commonly known as the British Democrats,is a British far-right political party. It was launched in 2013 in a village hall in Leicestershire by a ten-member steering committee which included former members of several political parties including the British National Party (BNP),Democratic Nationalists,Freedom Party,UK Independence Party (UKIP) and For Britain Movement.
General elections were held in Jamaica on Thursday,3 September 2020 to elect 63 members of Parliament. As the constitution stipulates a five-year parliamentary term,the next elections were not expected until between 25 February and 10 June 2021. However,Prime Minister Andrew Holness called early elections to ensure a united response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On the advice of Holness,Governor General Patrick Allen dissolved Parliament on 13 August 2020.
Mark Jefferson Golding is a Jamaican attorney,investment banker,and politician who has been Opposition Leader of Jamaica and President of the People's National Party since November 2020,following the 2020 Presidential Election. He was a member of the Senate of Jamaica from 2007 to 2017 and served as Minister of Justice from 2012 to 2016. He was elected as Member of Parliament for South St Andrew in 2017 and is a member of the People's National Party (PNP).
Jamaica is the first English-speaking country in the Caribbean to achieve universal adult suffrage and grant women the right to be elected to Parliament. Between 1944 and 2020,a total of 47 women have been elected as Members of the House of Representatives. As of September 2020 there are 18 women in the House of Representatives,the highest ever. This is a new all-time high at 29% and is the first time that female representation in the House of Representatives stands at more than a quarter of the total membership.
A parliamentary by-election occurs in Jamaica following a vacancy arising in the Parliament of Jamaica. They are often seen as a test of the rival political parties' fortunes between general elections.
Saint Catherine South Central is a parliamentary constituency represented in the Parliament of Jamaica. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The constituency covers the southern central part of Saint Catherine Parish. It has been represented by Andrew Wheatley of the Jamaica Labour Party since 2011.
The 14th Parliament of Jamaica was sworn in after being elected at the 2020 Jamaican general election.
